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Developing countries at climate change talks in the Thai capital Bangkok have said they need more funds from industrialised nations if they are to shift away from polluting and carbon-intensive economies.  Delegates from the world's poorest nations said they could not sign a global warming pact in 2009 unless they received billions of dollars each year. The pact envisages a stabilisation of carbon emission in the next decade and a 50 percent cut by 2050. A total of 164 countries are taking part in the five-day meeting this week, to work out what to do after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol expires. Scientists have warned that global warming will lead to widespread weather extremes, damage and higher sea levels, unless rising greenhouse gases are curbed in the next two decades.